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Jon Beiler

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I have been a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 1976.  Like many of my colleagues, I am the student of a former Philadelphia Orchestra member.  My first violin teacher, from the age of eight until I left for college, was Louis Gesensway, himself a member of the Orchestra from 1926 to 1971.
 Even before I joined the Philadelphia Orchestra, I partook of some of our illustrious history when I played under the late Leopold Stokowski, who received an honorary degree at Yale University while I was concertmaster of the undergraduate orchestra there. 
I was hired by Eugene Ormandy, and I have played here under the tenures of Riccardo Muti, Wolfgang Sawallisch,  Charles Dutoit, and Christoph Eschenbach.  I am enjoying the opportunity of performing under the baton of our dynamic new Music Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin. 
 I am proud to have been part of the great tradition of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and to my ears, the Orchestra sounds better than at any time since I have been here. 



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